Hate Narratives

Language as a Tool of Intolerance

Author: Iwona Jakubowska-Branicka and Alex Shannon

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In Hate Narratives Jakubowska-Branicka focuses on language’s power to build social relationships based on hatred. She analyzes a particular kind of narrative description, namely dogmatic narratives, and examines media-created «parallel realities.» Where do we, in a modern liberal democracy, draw the borders of tolerance?

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Hate Narratives examines the limits of free speech and focuses on the role of language in creating images of reality, and on language’s power to build social relationships based on hatred. The study provides an analysis of language used in totalitarian systems, along with a particular kind of narrative description, namely dogmatic hate narratives, which are used in democratic systems as well. It focuses on the notion that the media and other sources of information create «parallel realities», and that facts created by media are translated into social fact. Central to this line of thought are the determinants by which an individual chooses from among the various broadcasted images of reality.

About the Author

Iwona Jakubowska-Branicka is a professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw. Her main areas of interest are sociology of law, modern democracy, human rights, psychology of politics, and methods of political propaganda.